Birmingham Jail Speeches

Hello everyone. I am Martin Luther King Jr and I am a very important historical figure. I am an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights. Some of my influences were; Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Bayard Rustin, and Henry David Thoreau. I am going to give you three reasons why you should keep me in the balloon; first I lead the March on Washington in 1963, I was in charge of the Birmingham Campaign, and I lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. If you throw me out of the balloon the United States would still be racially segregated today.

First I am going to tell you about the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The March on Washington ended racial segregation in public schools; meaningful civil rights workers from police brutality; a 42 minimum wage for all workers; and self- government for Washington, D.C., then governed by congressional committee. I gave the "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The march originally conceived as an event to dramatize
The Birmingham campaign was a strategic effort by the SCLC to promote civil rights for African Americans. Based on actions in Birmingham, Alabama, its goal was to end the city's segregated domestic and biased economic policies. In the spring of 1963, the campaign lasted for more than two months. The protests in Birmingham began with a boycott to burden businesses to end isolated facilities in the stores. After a while, I had to switch it up a bit and start sit-ins and marches intended to provoke arrest, also known as Project-C. By the end of the campaign my reputation was improved immensely, many bad signs in Birmingham came down, bad officer’s lost their jobs, and public places became more open to blacks. Without the Birmingham Campaign, many of those reasons would not have been fixed and would still be going on